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• ChrisIceBox

  January 2023

  Welcome to the community, @CJWilson.

  It's possible to limit a Conversation option's display according to whether or not the Player is carrying a specific item. One approach you could take would be to create such an option for each item (irrelevant ones could be all set to run the same Actions). These options could be moved to a separate Conversation (and Conversation menu) to have them appear in a separate UI to your regular dialogue tree.

  Otherwise - if you wanted to instead bring up a regular Inventory box and have the Player choose from them - you could rely on custom scripting to determine what happens when the Player clicks on a given item.

  Perhaps what you could do is a hybrid of the two - where an InventoryBox menu element is shown (and has custom click behaviour driven by script), but clicking an item will check to see if a given Conversation has an option linked to that item. Otherwise, a "fallback" ActionList could be run.

  I can advise further if this sounds like the right approach for you.
• CJWilson

  January 2023

  So, if I understand the hybridization option right: that would open up an InventoryBox menu element, then clicking items that do have a conversation option would carry you forward in the dialogue as though you clicked the right conversation option. Meanwhile, if you click one that doesn't, I could make the character say some default "I don't understand what you're showing me" text?

  If so, that seems like a good bet. I wanted the evidence presentation to be visual and based on icons, and figured out how to make the inventorybox menu show, but couldn't find my way past that stage. Help along that hybrid option you proposed would be golden.

  Thank you so much!
• ChrisIceBox

  January 2023 edited January 2023

  That's what I was getting at, yes.

  It might take a bit of tweaking, but try this:

  1. Create a new Menu named "Evidence"
  2. Set its Appear type to During Conversation. and check Start game locked off?.
  3. Add an InventoryBox element, and set its Inventory box type to Custom Script.
  4. Create a new Conversation that only has the options for using items (no "regular" speech options).
  5. Copy/paste the code below into a C# script named EvidenceMenu, and attach the new Evidence Menu component to the above Conversation.
  6. Assign an ActionList in its Inspector to run when no appropriate option is found
  7. To show the list of items, use a regular Dialogue: Start conversation Action to run the new Conversation.

  EvidenceMenu.cs:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class EvidenceMenu : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public ActionList unhandledResponse;
      private const string normalConversationMenu = "Conversation";
      private const string evidenceConversationMenu = "Evidence";
      private bool isRunning;
  
      void OnEnable ()
      {
          EventManager.OnStartConversation += OnStartConversation;;
          EventManager.OnEndConversation += OnEndConversation;;
          EventManager.OnMenuElementClick += OnMenuElementClick;
      }
  
      void OnDisable ()
      {
          EventManager.OnMenuElementClick -= OnMenuElementClick;
          EventManager.OnStartConversation -= OnStartConversation;;
          EventManager.OnEndConversation -= OnEndConversation;;
      }
  
      void OnStartConversation (Conversation conversation)
      {
           isRunning = (conversation.gameObject == gameObject);
           if (isRunning)
           {
              PlayerMenus.GetMenuWithName (normalConversationMenu).isLocked = true;
              PlayerMenus.GetMenuWithName (evidenceConversationMenu).isLocked = false;
           }
      }
  
      void OnEndConversation (Conversation conversation)
      {
          isRunning = false;
          PlayerMenus.GetMenuWithName (normalConversationMenu).isLocked = false;
          PlayerMenus.GetMenuWithName (evidenceConversationMenu).isLocked = true;
      }
  
      void OnMenuElementClick (Menu menu, MenuElement element, int slot, int buttonPressed)
      {
          if (!isRunning) return;
          MenuInventoryBox inventoryBox = (MenuInventoryBox) element;
          if (inventoryBox == null || inventoryBox.ParentMenu.title != evidenceConversationMenu || inventoryBox.inventoryBoxType == AC_InventoryBoxType.CustomScript) return;
  
          InvItem clickedItem = inventoryBox.GetItem (slot);
          if (clickedItem == null) return;
  
          Conversation conversation = GetComponent<Conversation> ();
          foreach (ButtonDialog buttonDialog in conversation.options)
          {
              if (buttonDialog.isOn && buttonDialog.linkedInventoryID == clickedItem.id)
              {
                  conversation.RunOptionWithID (buttonDialog.ID);
                  return;
              }
          }
  
          if (unhandledResponse) 
          {
              conversation.TurnOff ();
              unhandledResponse.Interact ();
          }
      }
  
  }